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were Jews as refutation of Sack's figure of 75%. Sack responded that he had stated his figure for officers in Kattowitz in February, not all members in November, and that he had also written that hundreds of Jews left OSS during the year. Sack said that he attempted to publish a response in a letter
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in Poland for German civilians. Sack provides details of the imprisonment of 200,000 Germans "many of them starved, beaten and tortured" and estimates that "more than 60,000 died at the hands of a largely Jewish-run security organisation."
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were Jewish, including 50% of its departmental directors. Notably, all directors of the critical Department One were Jewish with no exception. Szwagrzyk himself used the existing records declassified after the
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Sack has responded to American critics of the book who say that it is "sensational and its charges inadequately attributed to source" by replying that his extensive research left little doubt that Jews ran the
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that called it "antisemitic fodder". According to Sack, Geisel claimed to quote a passage that doesn't exist in the book. It was published by another German publisher instead.
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Sack expressed surprise at criticisms denying the accuracy of his claims, asserting that the main points have been repeatedly confirmed by others, the TV programme
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Aparat Bezpieczenstwa w Polsce. Kadra kierownicza. Tom I: 1944–1956 (The Security Service in Poland. Directorate. Volume One: 1944–1956)
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to estimate that in 1944-54 the real percentage of Jewish directors was 37.1% decreasing to 34.5% in 1954-56, before the end of
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inform that in 1945–1950 there were between 206 and 500 internment camps set up mostly by the Soviet
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General Nikołaj Seliwanowski dated 20 October 1945 stated that 18,7% of the field operatives in the
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pulled the book after printing it, apparently in response to a review by journalist
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agreed to publish his reply as an advertisement, but later reversed its position.
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An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945
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An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945
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Auge um Auge. Die Geschichte von Juden, die Rache für den Holocaust suchten
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took revenge on their former captors while overseeing over 1,000
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Book claiming Jewish revenge vs. Germans creates dispute
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A professor of Jewish history at Brandeis University,
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Index


John Sack
Basic Books
Hardcover
ISBN
978-0-465-04214-2
John Sack
Jews
Eastern Europe
Czech Republic
Poland
concentration camps
Antony Polonsky
Tadeusz Wolsza
Polish Academy of Sciences
Krzysztof Szwagrzyk
Institute of National Remembrance
NKVD
Greater Poland
Silesia
Holocaust
Daniel Goldhagen
The New Republic
Office of State Security
Świętochłowice "Zgoda" camp
60 Minutes
The New York Times
Piper Verlag
Eike Geisel
Book claiming Jewish revenge vs. Germans creates dispute

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